FOIA Number: ED-17-0069

FOIA requests filed by American Oversight prompted the discovery that Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Trump and a top White House advisor, used personal email to communicate with federal agencies on hundreds of occasions, the Washington Post reported on November 19, 2018.

American Oversight today sued to obtain emails from the time period at the start of the Trump administration during which Ivanka Trump advised the president and offered input to executive agencies but refused to become a government employee subject to ethics rules.